If I could afford it I'd have at least 100 bows.
The way things are, I have to let one go to get another, or I could quite coming here looking and reading about all these beautiful bows.
hahaha NOT GONNA HAPPEN

I sell-um to buy more of-um. I've never had a bow I couldn't part with. As long as Bob, Dale and Dave keep making them, I'll always want to try a new one once in a while..

Tastes in what I like in a bow have changed over the years.  I'm selling bows because I really can't justify having so many lying around, even if they are nice bows.  Selling helps to pay for my new bow and also gets rid of extra stuff I don't need.  A 'less stuff is better' mentality, I suppose.

I could not sell my bows. Too many memories with each one of them. However, I only have half a dozen or so... not 2 dozen! And I can imagine lot's of reasons why other people might sell them.

When your better half funds that you have ordered more new bows and she says that you have to get rid of some of your bows to make room for the new ones!

Kinda like the old Hank Jr song.  "I like to have women I've never had."

Yes......It is a sickness.

Yeah, it's a sickness.  I've bought and sold more high-end bows than I can count.  I hear about the latest and greatest, or I see someone else's bow of another brand and like it, and then I want one of those.  Lately, I've bought new bows in order to go down in weight, and that is the best decision I've ever made.  However, no gun or bow is sacred to me, so I'll probably continue this cycle till I die.  Hey, whatever gets you through the night. . . .

Cause you can't afford to own 'em all!!!!    

Larry

OK, I admit it. I sold a bow.
It happened last week. I premeditated it, I took steps to do it, and, I dooed it.

It was a '67 Bear Kodiak Hunter, 48 pounds. Left handed. I bought it so that I could shoot left handed. I am left eye dominant.
I did practice it a few times. I have left-hand tabs and everything. But I have SO many bows that are right-handed, I can't imagine selling them because at fifty years old, I decided to go left-handed. And I was lousy at it.

Never mind that I am also lousy right-handed. I am working on that. I am shooting only one bow these days, and as soon as I settle on ash instead of ash, cedar and loonyums, I expect that my accuracy will improve. You see, I bought this truck.

Oh, uh, you don't see. Well, I am a mailma'am. I was delivering the US mail from a Tundra. I tried a new six-banger after my old six-banger started running on five bangs, but they had redesigned it since '93, and I couldn't keep my foot on the brake and shift gears while sitting in the passenger seat.

I had been looking for five years, the span of my career. Out of the murky mists that rise over the Potomac each morn, it finally appeared, the Mail Truck of my dreams! On the bulletin board of my office, like a mushroom, sprang overnight a notice that a real honest-to-mailbox LLV was for sale! A refugee from a Naval base (like me!!) had been bought and sold to a carrier in a nearby Post Office. He was now going into the ASP program and wouldn't need it anymore. (ASP is management training. The ASP program is where they turn a carrier into a snake.)

I jumped on it like a duck on a Junebug. I took a loan. I called the county involved and told them to "Tax me, please!!" I registered it. I tagged it. I insured it. I got followed around by supervisors trying to save the PO money by shaving time ($) offa my route because I had this swell vehicle and didn't have to dismount as much as I used to. I had no money. I had to go to the Baltimore shoot.

So I wrapped the old bow in a greasy rag and set out to sell it. It sold. And since I had now recouped my travel and shoot expenses, and some of the food and drink, I bought a dozen arrows from Brandywine. I wish I were a hard-nosed businesswoman, sharp and rich, instead of such a lousy shot with a great truck!

Killdeer

well here's my 2 cents: over the years I started with used bows for two reasons less expensive and a chance to try that bow.If I liked it I sold the used  bow to offset the price of the new one.Then I bought two by the same bowyer, one recurve one hybrid to match.I then decided on only hybrids and I tried to always climb up the quality bow ladder so to speak.This bow alittle better than the last.I always  made sure that I wasn't taking money away from my families funds.There still are a bunch out there I would like to shoot and possibly own but for now i'm content with the two I have. Although I sure like the looks of a couple of traditional D style longbows out there.Plus I still have a new bow on order yet.Yeh I guess i'm a little sick Morning Star and Diamond Paul have similar veiws.

QuoteHey, whatever gets you through the night. . . .  

I'll second that.

I have nothing against selling a bow. I just can't do it.

As I become more and more aware of what I like in a bow (performance, feel, appearance,etc.) the more I am apt to keep the old bow. But ask me in 2 yrs. and let's see what I have done in selling or keeping them. I have a 12 yr. old Blacktail recurve that I don't see ever selling.

Killdeer,

Thanks for the story. Riviting!

I always have 3 bows. My go to, my backup, and one on the bubble.

For me it is a tough decision.  I have sold most of my bows and am down to two.  After 30 some yrs of bowhunting I will be giving it up for the most part.  I'm kind of fed up with Wisconsin, The earn a buck deal and just the problem of finding land.  The public land because of the earn a buck is over run and shot to hell.  Farmers won't let cha on but still want their money from the Government for crop loss.  I will be taking out of state trips for other animals maybe..but fishing is in my future..they can't mess with that too much.

I have sold a few lately because they seem to be out growing me in the weight department. :)I have put a couple on a diet but there are some that just want lose weight like I would want them too.They will have to go.

Because there are so many more to try!